🔄From The Archive: 800 years ago, a young man rose to power in Mongolia. The world would never be the same.
The story of the Khan is one of hardship, ambition, cruelty and, ultimately, the kind of success that is difficult to even dream of. But at the beginning, it was almost nothing at all.,” a text written for the Mongol royal family after Genghis Khan’s death, though the author remains unknown. As such, it is difficult to verify much the information therein, especially that concerning the Khan’s early life.
From there, Temüjin began to slowly conquer nearby tribes, gaining strength each time by assimilating the defeated under his own banner. An exemplary early victory came over the Tatars, a powerful confederation of Mongol tribes. The success put him on a path to uniting all of Mongolia, long riven by internecine struggles between various tribes. It was here that Temüjin’s reputation for cold-bloodedness also became apparent.
A protracted campaign against the Khwārezmian dynasty, in western Asia and part of modern-day Iran, would occupy much of the rest of Genghis Khan’s life. Begun when the Khwārezm Shah murdered a trade delegation from the Mongol Empire, the war would eventually extinguish the Khwārezmian rule and further expand the boundaries of the Khan's empire.
After returning home in 1223, the Khan left war aside for a time, until his final campaign in China. It was there, during a campaign against the Xi Xia empire that the universal ruler met his death, likely after being thrown from a horse. He was buried in an unmarked grave, its location unknown.Genghis Khan left an enormous empire in the wake of his death, and subsequent campaigns by his sons and generals would expand its borders even further.
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